that if you ask the debian installer to keep the data you have on a partition that you then want mounted, it will helpfully protect every gigabyte of it from the installation process by placing the files in the trash ( Read more... )

You know those projects that end up taking much more work than they should, and really ought never have needed doing in the first place ( Read more... )

I've had this image-processing project on a back burner for about two years, trying to decide whether to try and use one of the publicly-available image-processing libraries or roll my own (very simple, very specialized) recognition algorithms. Some of the libraries out there don't actually do what I want -- they blur, they sharpen, they flood ( Read more... )

This is just remarkable. The post itself is great, the commenters -- even many of the apparently-more-clueful ones -- sound as if the ideas of snark or connotation had just never occurred to them. They either don't recognize it at all, or turn it around gingerly in their hands as one might examine an alien artifact. "What is this thing you call a B ( Read more... )

The BBC covers a french museum exhibition about Tarzan, and wonders why some people should think the works and character problematic.

Do not drop gizmo in bathtub while bathing offspring. If gizmo is dropped, allow to dry thoroughly for several days before replacing battery in battery compartment. Also consider the acquisition of a spare battery and/or an external charger so that you are not dependent on a working gizmo for battery charging.